CARIS HPD : Command Reference : O : Open File
 

Open File

 
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S-57 Update
Coordinate Reference System
VPF Open Wizard

* CARIS HPD Paper Chart Editor

* CARIS HPD Product Editor

* CARIS HPD Source Editor

* CARIS S-57 Composer

* CARIS Paper Chart Composer

* Admin Tools

* Template Editor

 

Menu

File > Open > File

Tool

Key

Ctrl+O

Pop-up

Add > File Source (Projects window)

Open electronic charts, geospatial PDFs, raster maps and images as background data.

The open file is displayed the Display window. The information displayed in the Layers and Properties windows depends on the type of data opened.

All open files are listed in the Layers window and Projects window, and available with the Recent Files command.

The following data types can be displayed.

Format

Extension

AutoCAD DWG

.dwg

AutoCAD DXF

.dxf

BSB

.kap

Bathymetry Attributed Grid

.bag

Bentley/Intergraph DGN

.dgn

CARIS File

.des

CARIS H2O

.h2o

CARIS HOB

.hob

CARIS IGA

.iga

CARIS Spatial ARchive

.csar

Digital Elevation Map

.dem

ESRI ASCII Grid

.asc

ESRI Binary Grid

.adf

ESRI Floating Point Grid

.flt

ESRI Shapefile

.shp

GRldded Binary

.grb; *.grib; *.grib2; *.grb2

GeoPackage

.gpkg

Geography Markup Language

.gml

Geospatial PDF

.pdf

Graphic Interchange Format

.gif

Hydrographic Chart Raster Format

.chr

Intergraph Raster

.cot; *.crl; *.rle; *.cit

Joint Photographic Experts Group 1992

.jpg; *.jpeg

Keyhole Markup Language

.kml

LaserĀ· Scan Internal Feature format

.iff

Maplnfo File

.mid; *.mif; *.tab

NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids

.bin

National Imagery Transmission Format

.ntf

NetCOF Coards Format

.nc

NetCOF GMT

.gmt

Portable Network Graphics

.png

S-100 Dataset

.000

S-100 GML Dataset

.s100gml

S-57 Dataset

.000

SQlite

.sqlite

Tagged Image Format

.tiff; *.tif

VPF Browse library

lat

VPF Database

dht

VPF Library

lht

VPF Product File

.prd

Windows Bitmap

.bmp

[GDAL] ASCII Gridded XYZ

.xyz

Procedure

1. Select the Open File command.

An Open dialog box is displayed.

2. Select one or more files.

You can select multiple files using <Shift+Click> or <Ctrl+Click>.

3. Click Open.

Depending on the selected file type, one or more dialog boxes may be displayed for each file.

4. Set any necessary options and click OK in each dialog box.